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Charter Schools and Public School Choice

CRPE’s research examines both the promise and the challenges of charter schools and school choice, with a focus on how they can expand opportunity, drive innovation, and better serve diverse student needs. We study charter schools alongside district schools and other models, highlighting lessons that can inform the broader system. New data and evidence help innovators across the country collaborate, communicate, and develop best practices.

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To Survive, Charters Cannot Ignore the Bottom Line

Marguerite Roza

by Marguerite Roza By now, most people in the education world have come to terms with the notion that resources are likely to be highly constrained in the years ahead.

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Charters Branch Out: Do Moves Into Affluent Areas Signal an Important Trend?

Jeffrey Henig

by Jeffrey Henig Twenty years ago, in the early days of the charter school movement, the hot controversy was “creaming.” Critics worried that charters would target more advantaged suburban populations, skimming off the students most likely to succeed and leaving traditional public schools in low-income and minority neighborhoods even more isolated, underfunded, and burdened with the toughest student cases.

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Tech-Based Learning: The New Frontier for Charters?

Michael Horn

by Michael Horn When charter schools were created in the 1990s, they were intended to spur innovation in America’s K–12 school system.

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New Frontiers: An Overview of Charter Schools in 2012

Robin Lake

by Robin Lake The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been producing Hopes, Fears, & Reality since 2005, after a set of major studies showed conflicting results about charter school performance and caused quite a dustup.

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Incubate for America?

Ethan Gray

by Ethan Gray If you have a winning idea for a new business, the United States has the needed infrastructure to get the business off the ground.

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Ch. 4 – Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures and Savings (HFR ’12)

Marguerite Roza, Suzanne Simburg

Suzanne Simburg and Marguerite Roza lay out the cost savings possible if blended learning were adopted by all U.S. public elementary schools, not just charter schools.

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Ch. 3 – Innovating at Last? The Rise of Blended Learning in Charter Schools (HFR ’12)

Michael Horn, Tricia Maas

Michael Horn writes about how and why many charter schools in California have innovated through technology and asks what it will take for more to follow nationwide.

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Ch. 2 – Incubate for America? (HFR ’12)

Ethan Gray

Ethan Gray argues that cities should incubate their own high-performing charter schools rather than wait for charter networks to build schools in their area.

  • Research Reports    

Ch. 1 – Charter Inroads in Affluent Communities: Hype or Turning Point? (HFR ’12)

Jeffrey Henig

Jeffrey Henig explores the growth of charter school in suburban and affluent areas.

  • Research Reports    

Overview – WIll the Charter Movement Rest on Its Laurels or Innovate and Expand? (HFR ’12)

Robin Lake

Editor Robin Lake introduces the key areas explored in this year’s volume of Hopes, Fears, & Reality.

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